Rosenthal Collector Chardonnay 2021
- 96
- $90
- Drink by: 2022-2036
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From the start this chardonnay has been set for its staying potential. Yet at the same time its early years are going to be mighty strong going. The colour has a tinge of straw and then the aroma beguiles with its yellow stone fruit and citrus merging with a slightly toasty edge. The palate is smooth and lavishly rich showing more of the white peach flavours and a trace of spicy minerality. The fruit is sourced from a single vineyard at the Langton vineyard near Mount Barker.
Ray Jordan has been writing about wine for more than 40 years. His first articles were published in the early issues of national wine magazine Winestate in the late 1970s when he worked in Sydney as a newspaper correspondent. From 1989 Ray wrote more than 3000 columns as a regular newspaper wine columnist. He currently writes a regular column for the special business publication Business News and is one of the main contributors to national wine platform Wine Pilot. In 2017 Ray co-authored The Way it Was – A History of The Early Days of the Margaret River Wine Industry and previously wrote Wine in the Blood: Australia’s Family Wine Estates, published in Mandarin and English. In 2011 Ray was awarded WA Wine Press Club Jack Mann Memorial Medal for his contribution to the WA wine industry. His love of wine is as strong as his love of the blues and tasting the thousands of wines that cross his bench each year allows him to indulge in both.
